Kaysen writes of her experiences, augmented by pages from her medical record, in a psychiatric hospital and of the social and emotional assumptions that divide people into deviant or normal.
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele…
Life inside my mind: 31 authors share their personal struggles
by Johnson, Maureen, Hopkins, Ellen, Fine, Sarah, Block, Francesca Lia, Oliver, Lauren, Armentrout, Jennifer L., Reed, Amy Lynn, Pike, Aprilynne, Wilson, Rachel M., Wells, Dan, Benson, Amber, Anderson, E. Kristin, Neumyer, Scott, Chappell, Crissa-Jean, Kelly, Tara, McCreight, Kimberly, Wells, Robinson, Fiore-Stultz, Kelly
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Thirty-one young adult authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD.
Life inside my mind: 31 authors share their personal struggles
by Johnson, Maureen, Hopkins, Ellen, Fine, Sarah, Block, Francesca Lia, Burkhart, Jessica, Wells, Robison E., Oliver, Lauren, Armentrout, Jennifer L., Reed, Amy Lynn, Pike, Aprilynne, Wilson, Rachel M., Wells, Dan, Benson, Amber, Anderson, E. Kristin, Fiore, Kelly, Neumyer, Scott, Chappell, Crissa-Jean, Kelly, Tara, McCreight, Kimberly, Kelley Hall, Megan, Moskowitz, Hannah, Mahoney, Karen, Pollock, Tom, (Tom H.), Balog, Cyn, Marr, Melissa, Toliver, Wendy, Rodriguez, Cindy L., Ganger, Candace, Zarr, Sara, Hand, Cynthia, Stork, Francisco X.
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Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD. Have you ever felt like you just couldn't get out of bed?…
Life inside my mind: 31 authors share their personal struggles
by Johnson, Maureen, Hopkins, Ellen, Fine, Sarah, Block, Francesca Lia, Burkhart, Jessica, Wells, Robison E., Oliver, Lauren, Armentrout, Jennifer L., Reed, Amy Lynn, Pike, Aprilynne, Wilson, Rachel M., Wells, Dan, Benson, Amber, Anderson, E. Kristin, Fiore, Kelly, Neumyer, Scott, Chappell, Crissa-Jean, Kelly, Tara, McCreight, Kimberly, Kelley Hall, Megan, Moskowitz, Hannah, Mahoney, Karen, Pollock, Tom, (Tom H.), Balog, Cyn, Marr, Melissa, Toliver, Wendy, Rodriguez, Cindy L., Ganger, Candace, Zarr, Sara, Hand, Cynthia, Stork, Francisco X.
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Thirty-one young adult authors share their own struggles with mental illness, ranging from such topics as neurodiversity and addiction to OCD and PTSD.
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and …
